Last year, Oakland, Calif., became the first city in the country to create a special tax on marijuana sales. Voters approved a measure requiring dispensaries to pay $18 for every $1,000 in gross sales. The rate for other retailers is $1.20 for every $1,000 in gross sales.

The ballot question in Fruita is among dozens of questions posed to voters in at least 134 Colorado cities and towns Tuesday, according to the Colorado Municipal League.

The nine towns of Buena Vista, De Beque, Fruita, Garden City, Haxtun, Moffat, Morrison, New Castle, and Woodland Park had sales or use tax measures on the ballot.

Among other towns, Nederland was asking voters whether it should remove criminal penalties for the possession of marijuana for persons over the age of 21, similar to a measure passed last fall in Breckenridge.